The Workers Are Being Used Again - Christy Moore

I see a dark cloud rising outside Wexford town

I see a hard rain on Ireland pouring down

There’ll be no time to shelter.

Now let’s all make a stand

O’Malley’s plan we’ll have to ban or he’ll destroy this land

They want four nuclear stations, and who knows how many more?

If we are to stop them, we must defend Carnsore

So men and women of Ireland, it’s time to show your hand

The lessons of France and the USA should make us understand

That the working man is being used again

It’s the working man that’s being used again

Two thousand jobs are promised, believe that if you can

The nuclear boys with their nuclear toys, they tell us all is

But in Carnsore, Easkey and Kilrush the ESB would build —

Should one go wrong, despite their talk, thousands could be killed

It was in 1968 Jack Lynch went back to Cork

To open Skiddy Island where a few men got work

The multi-national oil tycoons, all turned up in style

Ten years later fifty men lay slaughtered by the oil

It’s the working man that’s being used again

It’s the working man that’s being used again

We never see their faces, these multi-national czars

Our lands they rape from cape to cape, our seas they fill with tars

The Westinghouse industrialists admitted to bribery

I wonder if our leaders from corruption will be free

Where will they put their poisons, they have yet to decide

We’ll sink it here, we’ll bury it there, but the fact’s we’ll have to hide

Will we leave this to our children to

It’ll be our shame we’ll be to blame if we let them use their plan

It’s the working man that’s being used again

It’s the working man that’s being used again

So gather round you people, this fight has just begun

We fought before, we know the score, this fight it must be won

Remember that the sun’s up there, just waiting for its turn

With the wind, and the tide, and the ocean wide, we have energy to burn

It’s the working man that’s being used again

It’s the working man that’s being used again

It’s the working man that’s being used again

Yes it’s the working man that’s being used again